Improved channeling-tool for soles



J. DILLON. GHANNELING TOOL FOR SOLES.

Patented Nov. 4, 1862.

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UNITED ST TES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMEs DILLON, or. LYNN, MASSAOHUSETTS,'ASSIGNOR TO ni'MsELE AN JOHNBaronet-s, OF sAME PLACE.

IMPROVED CHANNELlNG-TOOL FOR SOLES.

Specification forming partof Letters Patent No. 36,880., dated November4, 1862.

T0 aZZwhom it 12210 concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES DILLON, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Lynn, in the county of Essex and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Tool for Channeling Soles;and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the followingSpecification and represented in the accompanying drawings, 'of which-Figure 1 denotes a top view, Fig. 2 a front elevation, Fig. 3 an underside view. and Fig, 4 an end view, of the said tool. Fig. 5 is avertical section taken axially through the tubular cutter to behereinafter described.

The said channeling-tool is intended to form within a sole for a bootora-shoe a channel or groove for reception of the stitching, by which thesole may be afterward confined to the boot or shoe. It forms the saidchannel not only with a grooy, and a flap or cover thereto, but with aright-angular seat for the reception and support of the edge of theflap. It also makes the said edge thick, or what may be termed a squareedge, instead of a sharp Ordinarily the channel has been made by acommon shoe-knife, or partly by the same and partly by a gage or plow,in which case it is generally more or less improperly made,

and is without the right-angular shoulder or seat which is made by mytool.

Fig. 6 serves to illustrate, on an enlarged scale, a sectional view ofthe groove, flap, and flap-seat as formed in a sole by my tool. In thisfigure, a is the groove, 1) the flap, and c The shank of the tool isshown at A. On

its end it carries a tubular cutter, B, and a right angular seat-cutter,O, the latter having two cutting-edges. c d, standing at a right an gleto one another and arranged with respect to the-cutting-edge e of thetubular cutter, as

shown in the figures, which exhibit the implement on a scale very muchlarger than it is usually employed in practice.

In operating with the tool the cutter 13 forms the groove a, Fig. 6, andwith a raised flap, 6. The angular cutter G separates the edge of theflap from the sole, and makes the right-angular channel 0, whichconstitutes a seat for the edge of the flap b after the flap may havebeen forced down into place.

Informing the channel a, the tool will leave in it a strip or band ofleather, which subsequently should be pulled out of the channel.

-VVhile thetool is operation the shank is horizontal, or thereabout.

I claim- The channeling-tool as made with the tubu- JAM S DILLON.

Witnesses:

WM. L, PEABoDY, 'lrros. P.'NIcHoLs.

